Improvement in harvester-bakes



-To LL WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:

@1t-itch faire @anni @ffice LEWIS MILLER, OF AKRON, OHIO.

Lettera Patent No, 74,929, dated .Frua'ry 25, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTER-RAKES.

y Be it known that I, LEWIS MILLER, ot' Akron, in the county of Snmmit,and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inOperating Rakeson Harvesting-Machines; and I dohereby declare 4thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of trlic'same,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making a part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 represents'. the platform orgrain-table of a harvesting-machine, with the rake or fork thereon,

'and the appliances for givingv it a revolving and alsoa parallel, ornearly so, motion along the front of the platform. i

tMy-invention-.vconsists inthecombined use of two revolving telescopicarms,` one of which, and that one which carries the rake or fork,beingprojected or withdrawn during the rotation, by means of acam-path,and roller or guide moving in it, for tho purpose of causing the rake orfork to properly enter the grain, and move it, with a parallel'motion,along the front ofthe platform, and then turn, and ldeliver it on to theground, as will be explained. A is a platform or grain-table, furnishedwith the usual dvidersmnd guiding-boards. Upon this platform,

at a, is placedA a post or journal, upon which an, arm, B, is placed,and around which it is moved by any suitable gearing or mechanism,driven from the main driving-wheels of th'e machine. Within, upon, orunderneath this 1 arm B,' there is a sliding anni, C, which is moved outor in upon said arm B, by means of a roller, b, attached tosaid'slidingarm, and rnnning in acarn-path or Way, I), formed by marginal ledges, c.Upon the end of the sliding arm C there is secured an upright, cl,rintowhich the tines e are secured. The object and purpose of the `slidingarm* C are to cause the rake or fork' to enter the grain at the extremeoutside corner, and then move along parallel with the front of theplatform, tonear its inside end, and there turn, and'following theguiding or gavelling-boa'rd, move the grain to the point where it isdelivered onto the ground, and then continue on around for anothersucceeding similar operation.

What I claim as my invention, and desire toeeeureby Letters Patent, is tThe combina-tion of two revolving telescopic arms, turni-ng upon acentre arranged on Athe platform ata,

.one of which carries a fork or rake, and is caused to slide onl 4t-heother by mea-ns `of a'roller or guide traversing a cam-path or way, D,formed'by two raised marginal ledges, c'e, also'on the platform, andsurrounding the centre, a, substantial-ly as and for thepurpose-described.

LEWIS MILLER.

Witnesses GEO. A. COLLINS, Jenn McGnneon.

